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Verse Chronicle
Dupee, F. W. | October 13, 1945 issue

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Poet C. Day Lewis is at heart the most conservative of the poets who used to make up what was called the Auden circle. Beneath the left-wing politics, the Freudian imagery, and the sprung rhythms of his verse is an instinctive faith in conscience, courage, and the English countryside. One shall probably never see him turn into a poet of the first order. There is in him too little of that flare for ambiguity and contradiction which seems to be the prerequisite for great poetry in this furiously complicated age. Lewis' traditional and single-hearted idealism is his strength in the degree that he is content to recognize it and write by it.

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VERSE satire; DAY Lewis, C. (Cecil), 1904-1972; POETS; POETRY; IDEALISM in literature; LITERATURE
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